We love Google Search for its ease of use – no need to worry about spelling, grammar, or punctuation. But if you want to take your search skills to the next level, punctuation marks and symbols can improve your results.
Quotation marks: When searching for a specific phrase or saying, use quotation marks to search for those exact words. This helps filter out less relevant results by giving you only pages that include those exact words in that order.
Hyphen: When you use a hyphen before a word or site, your results will exclude sites with that information. For example, you could search for penguins –hockey to reduce the number of results that relate to the NHL team rather than the animal.
Asterisk: Ever go blank on a word or two in a saying, phrase, or song? Enter what you remember and use an asterisk in place of the missing word or words. For instance, a search for neither * nor reason quickly helps you find the word you’ve forgotten.